There are drawbacks to the paint. It doesn't just block wireless networks. In the home, it would block the one or two remaining TVs connected to rabbit ears. More important, it blocks mobile-phone signals.
The company also makes a window film that cuts down on signal leakage: A 30-inch-by-25-foot roll is priced at $45.
"Q: Why didn't you use GPS? A: We tried track the players using GPS, but ran into two problems: (1) GPS does not work well in "urban canyons", where the signal is reflected off large buildings and (2) we could not find an easy (read: cheap) way to send the geo-coordinate data from the GPS receiver back to the network. (It's hard to connect serial data to cellphones and PCMCIA cellular cards are expensive). Anyone want to donate equipment?"
How microsoft came to be where they were...it all started off with original marketing techniques. Apple thought that if the kids used them at schools they would convince their parents would use them at home. So apple focused on getting apple computers in schools. IBM on the other hand thought that if someone used a computer at work they would most likely use that same type of computer at home (work at home etc). So IBM focused on getting their machines in the workplace. What happened then is the child says they want a computer like the one they have at school, but the parent says that they are getting one like they have at work. Who wins in that argument? The one with the checkbook in most cases. That is how it worked AFAIK.
Microsoft came to be where they are now because they were the OS for IBM from the beginning.
Why are they still where they are? I think it is because of a lack of better alternative (or was until OSX). Linux, while it is great for certain things, is not there yet for wide acceptance. I think in a few more years there will be a great migration from Microsoft to Linux unless some great overhalls are done on the Microsoft side (assuming the current growth of linux). Apple, while they have their few adament followers, I doubt will be anymore than just that...a few adament followers (my opinion).
I chose my operating system and hardware setup on the following factors: 1) GAMES! Games are the thing my computer is used for the most, and to be perfectly honest, linux and apple don't even come close to having the selection of games that a Microsoft PC has. On another note, if the emulators would work as advertised or reasonably well with most games, this point would become moot. 2) Price. Microsoft vs Linux? Linux wins hands down. Microsoft vs Apple? The last time I checked, an apple pc was $500-$1000 more for a comporable system. Microsoft wins hands down. 3) Frustration Level. Since I have never used a newer apple PC I cannot weigh them. I have >attempted to use a linux system several times. Granted the frustration level for the Microsoft OS in the past was mid, the frustration level for linux was high. Why high do you ask? It was high because no matter what I read, or how hard I tried I could not get certain things to work (varied from distro to distro). Printers, network cards, sound cards, video cards, something inevitably didn't work even though it was supposedly supported. Currently though, the frustration level for Windows XP is very low. XP has impressed me with it's ease of use (hate the default layout though...luckilly I can change it to what I'm used to) and low lockup rate. I reboot my XP machine about once every 3 weeks when before on 98 I was rebooting at least once every other day. 4) Diversity of Hardware available. Tie for Microsoft and Linux. Apple has very few vendors offering only a few products. Apple lost big here.
I just hit the major points of why I use the OS I do. There were many other points, but the 4 listed were the 4 most important points regarding why I chose to go for a Microsoft Machine. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and needs, but for what I wanted, I had no alternative other than using a Microsoft OS. I really see myself using a Linux PC here in a few years once it matures right now, but at this moment I'm stuck.
You seem to have missed the point entirely. When trying to install any operating system why should you have to worry about 'crap hardware' or why should you need to have net access to search newsgroups, or even having a geek there to help? Retarded monkey or not, I can throw together some 'crap hardware' and have windows 98 running and usable on it in a matter of an hour or so - no geek/net access for newsgroups needed. I've even known of windows newbies able to format and reinstall without problems without geek/net access. RTFA
I believe it's called chinese overtime lol (at least from what I hear). It's actually more widely used that what you may think. The only thing you have to watch for is being paid less than minimum wage for regular hours and minimum wage * 1.5 for overtime. If they're paying you less than that then they're breaking the law.
It is my understanding that Frequent-Flyer miles were offered in the beginning (and even until now) to encourage a kind of brand loyalty amoung travelers (business travelers included). If it's up to the employee what airline they are going to travel, I would think that they're going to choose the airline from which they already have miles or will get the most incentives.
I simply can not comprehend any possible need for people to own tools who's sole function is to cause death*.
A similar statement can be made about alcohol and tobacco, yet they still persist.
I have not looked up the figures, but I am pretty darn certain that alcohol accounts for more deaths per year than firearms. Throw in cigarettes and I'm sure that firearms pale in comparison.
Unlike this [jsonline.com] guy, who was just driving to work.
Even legally obtained guns aren't safe from misuse [jsonline.com].
I'm sure I could also link hundreds of websites relating to people killed because of drunk drivers or second hand smoke or whatnot. Not to mention all of the families that have been destroyed because daddy got drunk and beat me/mom/little brother.
If the government wanted to get rid of guns, they could.
One word, Prohibition.
Just make the punishment severe enough - even for trivial posession.
True, that has worked for germany and drunk driving, but our great system would never do it or else it would have already been done for other things.
At any rate the point I think I was working towards is that guns are not the worst thing out there, granted thay can be bad, but I can come up with worse problems that I would rather have looked into (gangs, drugs, etc). Banning guns will never work, if you take them away from law abiding people, only criminals will have guns.
And no, I don't own a gun but I like to know that I have the RIGHT to own one if I choose to.
Come watch my system BSOD all day and you'll understand why programmers hate windows.
START DEVILSADVOCATE At home I use windows XP pro and to date I've had only had one crash that caused me to have to reboot the machine At work (I'm also a developer) we use windows 2000 pro, and reboots due to bad code (on my end) have been few and far between. END DEVILSADVOCATE
Yes, there are bugs out there that haven't been fixed, but on the whole I think the latest releases of windows (2000, XP Pro) are very stable. Granted the older releases (9X, ME) are complete Sheit and I cringe every time I get a 'bug' reported in our software and it turns out to be they're running 9X/ME. In those cases I usually want to personally go and shoot bill gates in the head.
Agreed, you have some very good points, and I do agree microsoft could be more timely with their bug fixes/fix the longstanding existing bugs, but overall I think they're finally doing a good job with their windows products (2000/XP pro). I think most of the slashdot community who haven't tried XP Pro and have given up on windows in the past might change their minds just a little if they only tried it.
All software is inherently flawed, I have yet to see ANY software put out by ANYONE that is bug free. Just because 90% of the computers in the world run a certain piece of software thus giving any bug more exposure that doesn't make microsoft products any worse than any other product out there.
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I'd like to see proof if there's any *nix distrobution that is 100% bug free or has absolutely no security vulnerabilities.
Honestly, if windows is so bad, so full of bugs, why does it keep selling? Lack of alternative? I think not, according to the slashdot community, linux is a more than viable alternative. People are stupid? Well I can see a point there but if you get down to it, it hasn't been as horrible as the slashdot community makes it out to be since it keeps selling.
My main problem with microsoft is that they keep selling updates as new operating systems (Windows ME as my case in point).
I'm just tired of seeing a bunch of posts on slashdot everytime microsoft relesases a bugfix about how horrible microsoft is.
I think it comes down to how people want to brag about how much they pay for a house, but the same people brag about how little they paid for their vehicle.
People just don't make sense. If you can figure this one out, write a book about it because you'll make a lot of money.
I'm not a physicist but I'm assuming the reason for the conical shape of the bottom of thrusters is to allow for perpendicular exploded particles to also help propel the ship. (something like why satellite dishes are conical/parabolic)
couldn't microsoft run a service in the backround that changes the vote tallies? or even some of the techs working on it.
How is that any different than how it works now? Couldn't the people running the polls or counting the votes modify the vote tallies? Nothing is ever 100% secure. Security always comes down to assuming that certain people will do the right thing, and we all know what assuming does.....
The only thing bnetd is facilitating is ability to play blizzard games online. Bnetd just allows people to connect for blizzard games, they shouldn't have to authenticate CD keys. And even if they wanted to authenticate CD keys I doubt blizzard would supply them with the information to do it for the reasons you stated. My point is that blizzard is complaining that bnetd is not authenticating cd keys while I seriously doubt blizzard would ever give bnetd the ability to do it.
BnetD is not cracking the software (starcraft etc) and distrubuting it through its service (which I would be completely against). BnetD is not even supplying the method to crack blizzard software. It is just supplying a server.
If blizzard would get off their rears and actually fix battlenet nobody would use bnetd. If battlenet was not slow and prone to crash why would anyone consider using an alternate service?
Also, this irks me more than any of it: "The BNETD software, which emulates Blizzard's free online gaming service, bypasses an authentication process designed to prevent the use of illegal copies of Blizzard games on the Internet." - Recent action by Blizzard to combat piracy - 4/17/2002 battle.net
How can blizzard expect bnetd to authenticate a cd key when blizzard won't release them? I could understand, if not condone, blizzard having a problem if bnetd were distrubuting pirated copies of blizzard's software but as far as I understand bnetd is not doing this.
"Even worse if diseases such as HIV/AIDs were included in your information"
This is where I am forced to pull out my DUH stick and am forced to beat you with it.
An insurance company would have to be a bunch of blubbering idiots to insure a person infected with HIV/AIDS (which is at this point an uncurable disease, and a cause of certain death).
If insurance companies were forced to insure people with HIV/AIDS then I can forsee alot of smaller companies going out of business.
Despite all of that, if you are insured with a company then you should not lose coverage because of contracting HIV/AIDS, but I really can't see any arguments in favor of making insurance companies give people with HIV/AIDS new coverage.
A good computer science program will teach the student how to program, how to do things, but not just with a specific language or operating system. A good computer science program will teach the student how to learn, how to learn from books, how to use algorythms, not just how to use a specific programming language.
Where I went to college, it was primarilly taught in C++, but I went on to work with powerbuilder, and I was quite happy that what I was taught was not just one specific thing.
I think computer science students will end up using the language that is used by their employer with very few exceptions. Sure if they learn C++ or Java in college they may try for that kind of job but if the school is good then they should be able to quickly pick up any language out there.
I know powerbuilder has it's problems...but seriously it has everything you are asking for..
Basically the best way I've ever been able to describe it is that powerbuilder has the ease of design like VB but the power of VC++ behind it. For those who don't know it's sybase's baby, and I'll admit it does have bugs (but honestly what software doesn't).
But it's what we're using at my job and I'm happy with it.
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Wow, I guess I must be SUPER GEEK!
NI! Was from the movie (quest for the holy grail) and NOT from the series Flying Circus.
Where's my supergeek prize? Door 2??? Door 3 you say? Or is it in the mail along with my OJ prize?
300+ pings? I've used a 2 way satellite connection. It sucks. Try 1500+ pings. Once they get going they're great, but getting started you have about 1.5 seconds to wait. They're as bad for gaming as cable modems that use a phone line for uploading.
no way, every time I Have to switch back to dial up after using my cable modem I cry. When @home dies on me I prefer no net as opposed to really really slow net.
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Why bother actually reading the article?
"Q: Why didn't you use GPS?
A: We tried track the players using GPS, but ran into two problems: (1) GPS does not work well in "urban canyons", where the signal is reflected off large buildings and (2) we could not find an easy (read: cheap) way to send the geo-coordinate data from the GPS receiver back to the network. (It's hard to connect serial data to cellphones and PCMCIA cellular cards are expensive). Anyone want to donate equipment?"
How microsoft came to be where they were...it all started off with original marketing techniques. Apple thought that if the kids used them at schools they would convince their parents would use them at home. So apple focused on getting apple computers in schools. IBM on the other hand thought that if someone used a computer at work they would most likely use that same type of computer at home (work at home etc). So IBM focused on getting their machines in the workplace. What happened then is the child says they want a computer like the one they have at school, but the parent says that they are getting one like they have at work. Who wins in that argument? The one with the checkbook in most cases. That is how it worked AFAIK.
Microsoft came to be where they are now because they were the OS for IBM from the beginning.
Why are they still where they are? I think it is because of a lack of better alternative (or was until OSX). Linux, while it is great for certain things, is not there yet for wide acceptance. I think in a few more years there will be a great migration from Microsoft to Linux unless some great overhalls are done on the Microsoft side (assuming the current growth of linux). Apple, while they have their few adament followers, I doubt will be anymore than just that...a few adament followers (my opinion).
I chose my operating system and hardware setup on the following factors:
1) GAMES! Games are the thing my computer is used for the most, and to be perfectly honest, linux and apple don't even come close to having the selection of games that a Microsoft PC has. On another note, if the emulators would work as advertised or reasonably well with most games, this point would become moot.
2) Price. Microsoft vs Linux? Linux wins hands down. Microsoft vs Apple? The last time I checked, an apple pc was $500-$1000 more for a comporable system. Microsoft wins hands down.
3) Frustration Level. Since I have never used a newer apple PC I cannot weigh them. I have >attempted to use a linux system several times. Granted the frustration level for the Microsoft OS in the past was mid, the frustration level for linux was high. Why high do you ask? It was high because no matter what I read, or how hard I tried I could not get certain things to work (varied from distro to distro). Printers, network cards, sound cards, video cards, something inevitably didn't work even though it was supposedly supported. Currently though, the frustration level for Windows XP is very low. XP has impressed me with it's ease of use (hate the default layout though...luckilly I can change it to what I'm used to) and low lockup rate. I reboot my XP machine about once every 3 weeks when before on 98 I was rebooting at least once every other day.
4) Diversity of Hardware available. Tie for Microsoft and Linux. Apple has very few vendors offering only a few products. Apple lost big here.
I just hit the major points of why I use the OS I do. There were many other points, but the 4 listed were the 4 most important points regarding why I chose to go for a Microsoft Machine. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and needs, but for what I wanted, I had no alternative other than using a Microsoft OS. I really see myself using a Linux PC here in a few years once it matures right now, but at this moment I'm stuck.
You seem to have missed the point entirely. When trying to install any operating system why should you have to worry about 'crap hardware' or why should you need to have net access to search newsgroups, or even having a geek there to help? Retarded monkey or not, I can throw together some 'crap hardware' and have windows 98 running and usable on it in a matter of an hour or so - no geek/net access for newsgroups needed. I've even known of windows newbies able to format and reinstall without problems without geek/net access. RTFA
I believe it's called chinese overtime lol (at least from what I hear). It's actually more widely used that what you may think. The only thing you have to watch for is being paid less than minimum wage for regular hours and minimum wage * 1.5 for overtime. If they're paying you less than that then they're breaking the law.
It is my understanding that Frequent-Flyer miles were offered in the beginning (and even until now) to encourage a kind of brand loyalty amoung travelers (business travelers included). If it's up to the employee what airline they are going to travel, I would think that they're going to choose the airline from which they already have miles or will get the most incentives.
A similar statement can be made about alcohol and tobacco, yet they still persist.
I have not looked up the figures, but I am pretty darn certain that alcohol accounts for more deaths per year than firearms. Throw in cigarettes and I'm sure that firearms pale in comparison.
I'm sure I could also link hundreds of websites relating to people killed because of drunk drivers or second hand smoke or whatnot. Not to mention all of the families that have been destroyed because daddy got drunk and beat me/mom/little brother.
One word, Prohibition.
True, that has worked for germany and drunk driving, but our great system would never do it or else it would have already been done for other things.
At any rate the point I think I was working towards is that guns are not the worst thing out there, granted thay can be bad, but I can come up with worse problems that I would rather have looked into (gangs, drugs, etc). Banning guns will never work, if you take them away from law abiding people, only criminals will have guns.
And no, I don't own a gun but I like to know that I have the RIGHT to own one if I choose to.
Finally.....
12. ??????
13. Profit!
You forgot....
f) Then halfway through the specs are changed and you are told to make a tunnel
It'd be quite easy to stop all of these ddos attacks....quit linking to other sites from slashdot
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At home I use windows XP pro and to date I've had only had one crash that caused me to have to reboot the machine
At work (I'm also a developer) we use windows 2000 pro, and reboots due to bad code (on my end) have been few and far between.
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Yes, there are bugs out there that haven't been fixed, but on the whole I think the latest releases of windows (2000, XP Pro) are very stable. Granted the older releases (9X, ME) are complete Sheit and I cringe every time I get a 'bug' reported in our software and it turns out to be they're running 9X/ME. In those cases I usually want to personally go and shoot bill gates in the head.
Agreed, you have some very good points, and I do agree microsoft could be more timely with their bug fixes/fix the longstanding existing bugs, but overall I think they're finally doing a good job with their windows products (2000/XP pro). I think most of the slashdot community who haven't tried XP Pro and have given up on windows in the past might change their minds just a little if they only tried it.
All software is inherently flawed, I have yet to see ANY software put out by ANYONE that is bug free. Just because 90% of the computers in the world run a certain piece of software thus giving any bug more exposure that doesn't make microsoft products any worse than any other product out there.
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I'd like to see proof if there's any *nix distrobution that is 100% bug free or has absolutely no security vulnerabilities.
Honestly, if windows is so bad, so full of bugs, why does it keep selling? Lack of alternative? I think not, according to the slashdot community, linux is a more than viable alternative. People are stupid? Well I can see a point there but if you get down to it, it hasn't been as horrible as the slashdot community makes it out to be since it keeps selling.
My main problem with microsoft is that they keep selling updates as new operating systems (Windows ME as my case in point).
I'm just tired of seeing a bunch of posts on slashdot everytime microsoft relesases a bugfix about how horrible microsoft is.
I think it comes down to how people want to brag about how much they pay for a house, but the same people brag about how little they paid for their vehicle.
People just don't make sense. If you can figure this one out, write a book about it because you'll make a lot of money.
I'm not a physicist but I'm assuming the reason for the conical shape of the bottom of thrusters is to allow for perpendicular exploded particles to also help propel the ship. (something like why satellite dishes are conical/parabolic)
How is that any different than how it works now? Couldn't the people running the polls or counting the votes modify the vote tallies? Nothing is ever 100% secure. Security always comes down to assuming that certain people will do the right thing, and we all know what assuming does.....
The only thing bnetd is facilitating is ability to play blizzard games online. Bnetd just allows people to connect for blizzard games, they shouldn't have to authenticate CD keys. And even if they wanted to authenticate CD keys I doubt blizzard would supply them with the information to do it for the reasons you stated. My point is that blizzard is complaining that bnetd is not authenticating cd keys while I seriously doubt blizzard would ever give bnetd the ability to do it.
BnetD is not cracking the software (starcraft etc) and distrubuting it through its service (which I would be completely against). BnetD is not even supplying the method to crack blizzard software. It is just supplying a server.
If blizzard would get off their rears and actually fix battlenet nobody would use bnetd. If battlenet was not slow and prone to crash why would anyone consider using an alternate service?
Also, this irks me more than any of it:
"The BNETD software, which emulates Blizzard's free online gaming service, bypasses an authentication process designed to prevent the use of illegal copies of Blizzard games on the Internet." - Recent action by Blizzard to combat piracy - 4/17/2002 battle.net
How can blizzard expect bnetd to authenticate a cd key when blizzard won't release them? I could understand, if not condone, blizzard having a problem if bnetd were distrubuting pirated copies of blizzard's software but as far as I understand bnetd is not doing this.
"Even worse if diseases such as HIV/AIDs were included in your information"
This is where I am forced to pull out my DUH stick and am forced to beat you with it.
An insurance company would have to be a bunch of blubbering idiots to insure a person infected with HIV/AIDS (which is at this point an uncurable disease, and a cause of certain death).
If insurance companies were forced to insure people with HIV/AIDS then I can forsee alot of smaller companies going out of business.
Despite all of that, if you are insured with a company then you should not lose coverage because of contracting HIV/AIDS, but I really can't see any arguments in favor of making insurance companies give people with HIV/AIDS new coverage.
A good computer science program will teach the student how to program, how to do things, but not just with a specific language or operating system. A good computer science program will teach the student how to learn, how to learn from books, how to use algorythms, not just how to use a specific programming language.
Where I went to college, it was primarilly taught in C++, but I went on to work with powerbuilder, and I was quite happy that what I was taught was not just one specific thing.
I think computer science students will end up using the language that is used by their employer with very few exceptions. Sure if they learn C++ or Java in college they may try for that kind of job but if the school is good then they should be able to quickly pick up any language out there.
My $.02 at least.
Well, the whole point of being a cable modem user is that you are connected 24/7/365.
I have to agree that the reason why they use DHCP and dynamic ip addresses is because it's easy and it discourages from you running a server.
I know powerbuilder has it's problems...but seriously it has everything you are asking for..
Basically the best way I've ever been able to describe it is that powerbuilder has the ease of design like VB but the power of VC++ behind it. For those who don't know it's sybase's baby, and I'll admit it does have bugs (but honestly what software doesn't).
But it's what we're using at my job and I'm happy with it.
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Wow, I guess I must be SUPER GEEK! NI! Was from the movie (quest for the holy grail) and NOT from the series Flying Circus. Where's my supergeek prize? Door 2??? Door 3 you say? Or is it in the mail along with my OJ prize?
300+ pings? I've used a 2 way satellite connection. It sucks. Try 1500+ pings. Once they get going they're great, but getting started you have about 1.5 seconds to wait. They're as bad for gaming as cable modems that use a phone line for uploading.
no way, every time I Have to switch back to dial up after using my cable modem I cry. When @home dies on me I prefer no net as opposed to really really slow net.